Web-tip.



R. A. MOORE.

WEB TIP.

APPLIQATION FILED 001'. 21, 1913.

0 1,1 30,100. Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

est: I inventor: M by E UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

ROSWELL A. MOORE, 0F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

WEB-TIP.

Application filed October 27, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROSWELL A. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Web-Tips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and improi'ed method of securing the web in buckles of the rustless type by which the end of the web may be securely held around the web bar of any of the commercial forms of such buckles without sewing and without increasing the cost.- Heretofore it has been customary to sew one end of the webbing around the web bar of buckles of this class and then pass the free end through the webbing slot from front to rear. Buckles with specially arranged backs have also been used in conjunction with metal tipped ends.-

My invention contemplates the use of any commercial, stock frustless buckle with a metal tip of such form secured to one end of the web that it cannot be pulled from th buckle when in use.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a View of my improved tip on a web end; Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional view of a webbed buckle;

and Fig. 3 a cross-sectional view of a webbed buckle and tip.

The end of the web 1 has a rigid tip 2 of metal or other suitablematerial clenched thereon. This tip 2 has a depression 3 therein out of the plane of the main body which for the purposes of my invention forms in effect a material thickening thereof without increasing the weight or bulk, although the tipped end remains of substantially uniform thickness throughout. This depres- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

Serial No. 797,529.

sion is formed at the time the tip is clenched on the web end and therefore no extra operations or expenses are incurred.

Any buckle 4 of the well known rustless type is used and comprises a finger piece and lever 5, generally of sheet metal and a back 6, generally of wire, the two being hinged together and forming a webbing slot between them which extends across the buckle and in depth from the line of the hinge to the web bar 7. The depth of this slot is generally just sufficient to hold two thicknesses of web, one the end around the web bar and the other the free end passing through the slot from front to rear.

The metal tipped end employed by me will pass freely through the webbing slot and lie around the web bar with the metal tip below the bar but as soon as the free end is passed through the slot the depth thereof is sufficiently reduced to prevent the easy withdrawal of the tipped end for the reason that the depression, in mechanical effect, has so thickened the tip that it cannot pass throughthe restricted slot.

I claim As a new article of manufacture the combination of a web and a rigid tip on the end thereof, a portion of said tip being depressed out of the plane of the main body of the tip, the tipped end being of substantially uniform thickness throughout, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSWELL A. MOORE. I

Witnesses WM. F. AVERY, W. T. BRONSON. 

